Creative and Therapeutic Arts Services

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Creative and Therapeutic Arts Services has provided artistic programming to patients, families and staff since 1978. A dedicated team of arts-in-healing professionals service over 20,000 patients annually, and works to foster an atmosphere of cultural tolerance, promote wellness through self-expression, support patients and their families during a difficult time, offer patients choice and variety, and create an aesthetically pleasing environment. Our mission is to combine the healing power of art, music, dance, and literature with other integrative care services to heal overall pain, provide symptom relief, empower self-awareness and emotional expression for coping skills, ease anxiety, offer a creative outlet for depressed patients, and enhance family and social relationships.

Art Therapy (according to the American Art Therapy Association) is a mental health profession that uses the creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages.

Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship. It is art based on the science of sound, its live acoustics are specifically tailored to the patient’s immediate need used to facilitate the healing process.